The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-11-25
TALKING IND FRTTING BY ELEC.
TRECITT.


Thomas A. Edison has got the most won
dgTful laboratory on the face OF the earth.
ii has erected at l4eWellYn Park, in Orange
N. J., three Buildings Of brick, Each Is one
has four stories. These buildings are being
supplied with every known material which
Could possibly be made use Of.
Mr.. Edison has been talking to q reporter
and has been telling some marvellous tales
about his perfected pnUngRraph.
you know that finished the first phone
graph more than ten years ago. 1t remained
more or leRs OF toy. Tn, germ. OF some
thing wonderful was perfectly distinct but 1
tried the impossible with it and when the
electric light business assumed commercial
Importance l threw everything overheard for
that. Nevertheless the photograph has
been more or lssE constantly in M. mind
ever since. When resting from prolonged
work upon the light my BRAN would revert
almost automatically to the old lueA. Since
the hight has been finished have taken up
the pL0nOgraph and after eight months Of
steady work have made it q commercial In
yeutiOD.
MY phonogrnph I expect to sec iQ every
business office. The first 500 will, l hope.
be ready for distribution about the end OF
,JaI uHry Their operation j, simplicity
itself, and cannot fail. Tie merchant or
clerk who wishes 70 send 4 letter has
only to set the mRchme IN motion and to
talk in his natural voice and at the usual
rate of speed into the receiver, When he
has finished the sheet OF 'phomOGTam, as |
call II, II Is tHHNN IbE luillltk INTO 4 llttlt
box made on purpose for the mails. We IRE
making the sheets into three giZgg-On6 Tor
letters OF from 500 TO 1000 words, another
size for 1000 words another size Tor 1000
words ] expect that an arrangement may
be made with the pOstOtiic0 authorities, ell
abliug the phOnUgTam boxes to be sent at
the same rate as q letter.
The receiver of phOnOgrum will pnt it
into MS apparatus and the message will be
given ont more clearly. more distinctly than
the best telephone message ever sent. The
tones OF the TUiC III the two monographs
which l have finished are So perfectly rem
dered that one can dlstInguleh between
Tenty different persons, each one Of whom
huB said Il few words. One tremendous adj
vantage il that THE letter may be repeated
thousand times If ugcegsur The DhOno-
gam does not wear out by use; more
over, it may b. filed AWAY for 90 years, and
be ready the Instant it is needed. Ii 2 man
dictates his will 10 the phOnOgraPh there will
be no disputlug the authenticity OF the duCu-
ment with those who knew tie tones Of his
Voice in life The cost Of making tie
DhanogTHm will be scarcely more than the
cost OF ordinary letter paper. The machine
Will read out tie letter or message at the
same rate Of speed with which it was dictated
II have UNpeTimeuted with Il device for
enabling printers 10 ret type directly from
the dlCtatlon Of the pbOnogr8ph aud think
thut it will work to q charm. II is 80 AZ
ranged tu8t the printer by touching @ it Jer
with ms foot allows 1iye or Ten wOrCB Of the
phunG.sram to be sounded II he Is not salts
leo WI Ill tDt llFhL nearing NJ Gull mage IL re-
peat the same words over and over again
until he has them IN type. For busy men
who dlcJat, II great deal for the press / am
sure that the phuuOErsph will be a Necessity
after Ii very lIt5ip experlencc.
Fen. uIgiCians the phnnogTIph il going
to do wonders owing to tue cXtrlma cheap
ness with which can dupliCate ullonOarams
and the deucacy with which tho aurgratps
gives out al Musical Rouuds. In tilt early
phauograph Of tn years ago, which was a
very imperfect and crude affair 60 upared to
that a. to-day, il ,yns ALWAYS NOTICED that
musical s0unds came out peCuI. aTly well. the
machine would whistle or sing fRr better
tlign il would talk This UerlIiiHrity Of
IN rb1pogrppL remains. ] have taken down
tile music Of an orchestra, and the Tr,qIjt IL
lyus. each instrument can he E1Frff-et{y-
distinguished. tbr strings are Ugrfectlv dis
tiuct tnr yi0Iitrg Fr1n1 fhe calIns AZ yp;I,5l
instrument ana the wood : re T,-TferflT bcsI1i
and even in the notes of the violin the over
fgnrsalC disti,et 80 q delicate ror II is goiIIu
10 work wonders for the benefit 81 91siS
lovers. 4 uiece for any Instrument fnr The